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Meme, Photobomb, Clickbait Among New Merriam-Webster Words

FWIW, new words have been added to the dictionary. The abbreviation that stands for "for what it's worth" is among 1,700 new entries that have been added recently to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary, according to Merriam-Webster spokeswoman Meghan Lunghi and the unabridged dictionary's website. Other new words include "clickbait," a noun defined as "something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially...

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